How to calculate cumulative length of a linestring, or the truck tonnage that accumulates across a set of roads

This articles describes how to compute the cumulative length of a single linestring, or the total tonnage that crosses a set road segments.

Geometry object size when exchanging of WKT/WKB encoded geometries.

Introduction The ordinates stored in an geometry objects, across all spatial data types do not have any rounding applied to their values. This is one aspect of data management that is seldom considered by most practitioners. Other articles in this website deal with how to round their values. This article is about a related topic”Read More

CheckRadii: Identifying Tight Radius Curves sections within LineString geometry data

Sometimes it is a data quality requirement for linear data (roads, pipelines, transmission lines) that curves within the lines must have a radius greater than a particular amount. Recently a customer asked me to write some TSQL functions to help them run data quality checks over linear data loaded into a SQL Server 2008 geometryRead More

Oracle Spatial Mapping and Map Rendering Performance Tips

Comment: This article was written about 10 years ago. Most of what is written is still relevant though the comments about disk usage and access do not apply if SSD is being used. Introduction There are lots of things one can do to improve performance in mapping environments because of a lot of the visualisationRead More